proc_get_status
If a process is reniced, then all its children inherit that niceness. So a PHP script can call proc_nice on itself, then invoke system(), and the command executed via system() will also be niced.
Also worth making a note of ionice. There's no PHP function for this, but it's important. A nice'd program will happily try to chew up all i/o bandwidth with very little CPU usage, it can therefore make the entire computer non-responsive despite the programmer's intention. Use "ionice -c3" or see "man ionice"
proc_nice
(PHP 5)
proc_nice — Modificar la prioridad del proceso actual
Descripción
bool proc_nice
( int
$increment
)
proc_nice() modifica la prioridad del proceso
actual por la cantidad especificada en
increment. Un
increment positivo reducirá la
prioridad del proceso actual, mientras que un
increment negativo la incrementará.
proc_nice() no está relacionada con proc_open() y sus funciones asociadas en ninguna forma.
Parámetros
-
increment -
El valor de incremento del cambio de prioridad.
Valores devueltos
Devuelve TRUE en caso de éxito o FALSE en caso de error. Si ocurre un error, como que el usuario carezca de
permisos para modificar la prioridad, un error de nivel
E_WARNING es generado también.
Notas
Nota: Disponibilidad
proc_nice() existirá únicamente si su sistema tiene soporte para 'nice'. 'nice' está definido de acuerdo a los estándares: SVr4, SVID EXT, AT&T, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3. Esto quiere decir que proc_nice() no está disponible en Windows.
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User Contributed Notes
proc_nice - [6 notes]
php at richardneill dot org ¶
2 years ago
kevin AT REMOVETHIS mrkmg.com ¶
1 month ago
On a Linux system, running apache2 as a non-privileged user you can not increase the niceness of the process after decreasing it. Also, you can not use the apache_child_ terminate either. I found the following does work though:
<?php
//decrease niceness
proc_nice(19);
//kill child process to "reset" niceness
posix_kill( getmypid(), 28 );
?>
Marek ¶
2 years ago
Regarding ionice - on linux the impact of the ionice -c3 class is similar to that of nice, because the CPU "niceness" is taken into account when calculating the io niceness.
pandi at home dot pl ¶
4 years ago
Simple function for check process nice, by default returns nice of current process:
<?php
public static function getProcessNice ($pid = null) {
if (!$pid) {
$pid = getmypid ();
}
$res = `ps -p $pid -o "%p %n"`;
preg_match ('/^\s*\w+\s+\w+\s*(\d+)\s+(\d+)/m', $res, $matches);
return array ('pid' => (isset ($matches[1]) ? $matches[1] : null), 'nice' => (isset ($matches[2]) ? $matches[2] : null));
}
?>
griph at dd dot chalmer dot se ¶
9 years ago
If you don't have PHP5 and needs to nice your process this works good.
<?php
function proc_nice($priority) {
exec("renice +$priority ".getmypid());
}
//You also need a shutdown function if you don't want to leave your http deamons with a modified priority
function exit_func(){
// Restore priority
proc_nice(0);
}
register_shutdown_function('exit_func');
?>
php at riggers dot me dot uk ¶
8 years ago
Just an addition to the previous note re: exec('renice...'). The exit_func() will not set the priority back to normal (0) (at least on linux), unless the user that the webserver is running as is a super user (bad idea). You can decrease the priority of the running task, but not increase it again. See man page for renice.
To prevent subsequent requests running at the lower priority I called apache_child_terminate() on shutdown.